Posts Tagged ‘prayer’
In buddhism, travel on
11 March 2010 tagged acute mountain sickness, airport, altitude, ams, beanie, book, buddhism, buddhist, ceremony, chess, children, chowkhang gompa, cold, dalai lama, email, flight, goa, gompa, heater, hemis gompa, ice hockey, india, internet cafe, jacket, kashmir, kids, korean monastery, ladakh, lama, leh, leh palace, market, monastery, namgyal tsemo gompa, palace, paolo cohelo, photograph, prayer, retread, shay gompa, skating, skating rink, snow, soma gompa, stok gompa, taxi, tea, temple, the zahir, thiksay gompa, thukpa, tibetan market, tour, tyre with no comments
day 341 – i got started early for my flight to leh. at 5am i got a taxi to the airport but had to stop along the way when the taxi shredded a tyre. retreads are very common in india and the quality is, in a word, shit. 10 minutes later we were going again [...]
In rants, travel on
7 March 2010 tagged application, approval code, australia day, australian embassy, bakery, bed bugs, book, breakfast, bureaucracy, camera stores, chess, computer, connaught place, conversation, cult, delay, delhi, email, foreign ministry, france, hippy, hostel, hotel, india, iran guide book, iranian embassy, iranian food, letter of introduction, lonely planet, main bazaar, mumbai, music, natural born killers, new delhi, official, operating system, pakistan embassy, phone, prayer, religious, restaurant, salvation army hostel, shower, singing, spain, train, ubuntu, upgrade, visa, water with no comments
day 331 – australia day – i woke up, had breakfast and packed. the hostel had no water at all … so no shower … and i was covered in bed bug bites … again! i stored my bag and headed into town. i checked out a few camera stores, checked email and returned to [...]
In australia, korea, travel on
25 December 2009 tagged air asia, alcohol, australia, bandar seri begawan, bangar, bangkok, beer, boat, borneo, breakfast, brunei, bsb, canal, carlsberg, chicken, cigar, city, dominican republic, duty free, email, ferry, flights, guesthouse, island, japan, kimchi jiggae, korea, korean restaurant, kota kinabalu, malaysia, mall, martini, memorial, mosque, museum, muslim, palau labuan, photos, prayer, river, satay, soldiers, sunset, surrender, travel, travel agent, visa, worldwar, ww2, wwii with no comments
day 296 – in the morning i walked into town again. i checked a couple of travel agents and realised my plan (to fly to bangkok via brunei) was going to be too expensive. i gave up and walked back across town. on the way i found a korean restaurant and decided to grab some [...]
In buddhism, drama & theatre, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
25 December 2009 tagged buddha, buddhism, buddhist, clouds, flag, grave, himalayas, mt everest, nepal, pagoda, prayer, sky with no comments
top – prayer flags on a mountain pass middle – those who fall from everest are remembered bottom – more prayer flags
In buddhism, cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
25 December 2009 tagged b&w, black, blue, buddhism, buddhist, clouds, flag, himalayas, nepal, pagoda, path, photo, photography, picture, prayer, reflection, rocks, sky, water, white, yak with no comments
In buddhism, cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
25 October 2009 tagged b&w, black, boy, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, costume, man, monk, myanmar, pagoda, photo, photography, picture, portrait, prayer, shrine, shwedagon, statue, sunglasses, white, yangon with no comments
top – a man prays at a shrine in shwedagon pagoda middle – a boy in traditional dress is carried around the pagoda as part of a ceremony bottom – morpheus the monk
In buddhism, cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
26 July 2009 tagged b&w, black, burma, desaturation, face, girl, hat, monks, myanmar, photos, pictures, portrait, prayer, red, temple, travel, wall, white with no comments
top – a local girl smiles for the camera middle – a monk jumps across the temple walls bottom – monks at prayer
In buddhism, travel on
3 July 2009 tagged american troops, annika, backpacker, band, beer, bike, blind, border, breakfast, buddhism, bullet, cambodia, cao dai great temple, ceremony, china, church, city hall, coffee, confucianism, cu chi tunnels, cult, dinner, embassy, eva, german girls, handicapped workshop, hawkers, helmet, hindu temple, ho chi minh city, incense, lightning, lonely planet, massage, minsk, motorbike, motorcycle, music, north vietnam, notre dame, opera house, palace, practice, prayer, rain, rifles, riverfront, saigon, scam, souvenir, spectacle, storm, tanks, taoism, taxi, temple, thunder, tour, traffic, tunnel tour, tunnels, underground, vendors, viet cong, vietnam, vietnam war, weather, wifi with 1 comment
day 121 – my room had wifi, so i did some stuff online, including chatting with friends. i had breakfast and wandered down to have another crack at finding a bike. i spoke to a motorbike taxi guy and he spoke really good english. when i told him what i wanted, he pointed straight at [...]
In cool photos, korea, my photos, photography stuff, random pix on
3 November 2007 tagged bong eun sa, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, incense, korea, prayer, seoul, sky, statue, temple with no comments